Donald Trump said at his Veterans Day event on 11 November that the war with Iran is on hold for now and that the US won, but that the US naval blockade of Iran will be maintained, NPR reports. At the same event he called for "total victory, not a 93% victory".
According to NPR, Trump said US forces remain "locked and loaded". A CBS News live-blog headline reports him saying the war will be over "when we want to end it". The exact wording of both lines has not been checked against a transcript of the speech.
An Iranian official, named by NPR as Gholamzadeh, responded at the COP31 summit in Turkey. NPR reports the official said Iran insists on its conditions, including an end to the US naval blockade and the release of Iranian frozen funds, or negotiations will not go forward.
NPR reporter Al-Shalchi says Iran continues to strike shipping vessels and that the US is escorting some ships. Al-Shalchi also puts Iranian inflation at 90%. These claims have not been independently checked.